So I belatedly registered for AmberCon NorthWest 2008. Anyone who hasn't done so already should, since it is the best role-playing convention in the world ( Read more... )

So the AmberCon NorthWest events are open for registration now. Registration is due by this Saturday (October 6).

ACNW 2007 Game BookI'm running two games this time: a parlor larp and a pulp game set in Amber. My general rule for most conventions is to run one fairly traditional game, and one more experimental/indie game. At previous AmberCon ( Read more... )

So our Amber Diceless campaign, "Shadow of a Doubt", wrapped up just before Christmas. I haven't posted about it on my LJ since my Amber Campaign Update in July. However, it had been going along swimmingly. zdashamber was terrific as a GM, and it was a good run.

Liz posted a summary of the campaign and its conclusion in a post on the Feminist SF blog, ( Read more... )

I almost forgot... A big splash at ACNW06 was reported first by zdashamber on RPGnet, as "Amber 2nd Edition - a new hope!" -- namely that Edwin Voskamp and Eric Todd announced that they had bought the rights to publish Amber roleplaying stuff from Wujcik, and they intended to put out a second edition ( Read more... )

So, I'm back from AmberCon NorthWest and had an excellent time. Only down side was that I got sick and skipped out on a Hero Quest game to save my voice for the next day. I enjoyed all the games I played in. However, the standout would have to be "Karm v. Osric" -- a 16-player larp organized by Lydia Leong, Yi-Mei Chng, Julian Morley, and Robert ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving for AmberCon NorthWest. I realize I hadn't posted about my schedule for it, so I'll give a brief outline:

• Princesses in Rebma (GM John Kim)
• Exponential (GM Eric Todd)
• Amber's Home for Imaginary Friends (GM Jennifer Zimmerman)
• Amber Shadows -- Continuation (GM Lee Short)
• Karm v. Osric (GMs Lydia Leong, Yi- ( Read more... )

So I should put up a note about the Amber Diceless campaign which I've been playing in. I've put up a bunch of campaign notes and material on my site, plus there's stuff on an RPGnet wiki section and a rules document on the GM Madeline's site. It's all linked now from my general Amber Diceless page:

John's Amber Diceless PageI'm playing Manfred ( Read more... )

So I'm starting on three new campaigns at once: Amber with my former Buffy group (GMed by zdashamber), Call of Cthulhu with my former HârnMaster group (GMed by myself), and Dogs in the Vineyard with my former HERO System group (GMed by myself ( Read more... )

A particular question that I'd like to answer here is adamdray's question in comments to his post "System Does Matter". He originally wondered, "How cool would the Amber DRPG be if it didn't rely so much on trust? How much fun would the Amber community have if they had a set of rules that supported them better?" After I described my AmberCon NorthWest ( Read more... )

I had a post a little while ago about standard rants I was considering. I noted Matt Snyder's two recent posts on referring to Amber play: A trumper and Prince of Chaos Theory. Now, I don't disagree in principle with most of what he said, but the slant of many comments prompted this.

Authority is not the same as authorship.A referee can have ( Read more... )